Ali Ahmeti

Ali Ahmeti ( born January 4, 1959 in Zajas, SR Macedonia, Yugoslavia ) is since its founding chairman of the party of the Albanian party Democratic Union for Integration ( DUI shortly ). He was also a political leader of the National Liberation Army (Albanian Ushtria Clirimtare Kombëtare, short KLA ) during the Albanian insurgency in Macedonia in 2001. Between 2008 and 2011, his party to the government of Nikola Gruevski.

Curriculum vitae

Ali Ahmeti grew up in rural, predominantly inhabited by Albanians Zajas, not far from Kičevo on. Between 1979 and 1983, he studied philosophy at the University of Prishtina in Kosovo. Between 1981 and 1983, he was one of the leaders of a nationalist student movement in Kosovo. Because of these activities, Ahmeti was arrested by the Serbian and Yugoslav authorities and had to serve a prison sentence of one year. In 1986, he received political asylum in Switzerland and lived there until 2001. 1988/89 he was co-organizer of student and miners protests in Kosovo. In 1996, he was co-founder of the KLA in Kosovo.

2001 Ahmeti was elected as commander in chief and representative of the KLA in Macedonia and declared in Switzerland as a persona non grata. The U.S. put him on their " blacklist ".

After the signing of the Ohrid Framework Agreement, the KLA was dissolved in Macedonia officially and its successor organization, the political party DUI, was involved in the subsequent process of fulfillment of the criteria of the Agreement. In the parliamentary elections of 2002 the DUI could win 16 of 120 seats and walked out a coalition with the Social Democrats.